Titel: Brunzell, Maria
Skrivet av: Charlie Soule skrivet 2008-08-21, 04:36
Bo & Chris - thank you very much!
I need some more training or language skills before I can use digitalarkivet.no, but you've given me the critical piece and a lot that I can move forward on.
The record seems to indicate that she was traveling alone, but maybe this means without immediate family and she could have been with a group from Eda. Is there an image of a passenger list that I could look at?
At some point, Maria is believed to have gone to Chicago to live with her Uncle John. There appears to be a Johan Brunzell (born July 20, 1849) at 476.47.23800 (moved in 1872, moved out 1875?), but perhaps this is a cousin rather than an uncle. I need to go back into the genline records to find Olof's siblings and extended family.
I am not finding an arrival record nor a listing in the 1880 USA census, but that does not mean that it is not there somewhere. I will keep looking.
Pittsburgh could be a faulty memory of my grandmother's Uncle Karl, or perhaps because of Olof's occupation they went to Steel Town USA?